Star Trek Movies

The first and most cinematic of the Star Trek feature films is letdown by a story that meanders when it should be urgent, as the freshly refitted U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 is despatched under the command of Admiral James T. Kirk to intercept a hostile alien vessel headed for Earth!

Still the benchmark for Star Trek movies, Nicholas Meyer's story and direction deliver a fresh lease of life to a crew who start to feel their age when an adversary from the past re-emerges and hijacks a planet-destroying weapon that forces Spock to make the ultimate sacrifice for his crew mates.

Leonard Nimoy takes charge behind the camera as Kirk and his crew discover there may be a way to bring their friend back-to-life, but they will have to disobey their superiors, steal the Enterprise and battle the Klingons if they are any chance of completing the most important mission any of them have undertaken.

Voting to return to Earth and face the punishment for their insubordination, the crew of the Enterprise are forced to travel through time to late 20th Century when they realize that the only way they can save their home world from an alien probe is by repopulating it with a long-extinct animal species.

After two films under Leonard Nimoy's charge, William Shatner steps into the Director's chair, but the results are mixed as some of the feature films' most stunning visuals are let-down by a screenplay that has a weak premise and execution that turns series regulars into amateurs on their own ship.

Despite a rushed pre-production and limited budget, Nicholas Meyer returns to the franchise to help the crew of the Enterprise uncover a galactic-sized conspiracy and celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Star Trek franchise, as well as The Original Series crew's final outing, in style.

Star Trek: The Next Generation takes its place in the feature film series, as Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-D enlist the help of Starfleet's most famous Captain to save the galaxy from a mad scientist's plan to harness a galactic phenomenon for his own ill-considered plans.

Picard and his crew, under the direction of series star Jonathan Frakes, engage in a more sure-footed sophomore outing, this time battling Next Generation bad guys the Borg in a time-travelling action adventure that sees the very foundations of Star Trek's Federation of Planets threatened.

In a story that would have made Gene Roddenberry proud, Director Jonathan Frakes brings long-time series Writer-Producer Michael Piller's screenplay to fruition, as Picard and his crew turn against Starfleet Command to save the inhabitants of an endangered planet.

What turned out to be the final Next Generation feature film is a lacklustre affair given the combined talent in front of and behind the camera as the crew of the Enterprise-D battle a Romulan-bred clone of Captain Picard played by a younger Tom Hardy who looks more like Dr.Evil than Patrick Stewart!

J.J .Abrams confuses "Wars" with "Trek" in this reboot of Gene Roddenberry's original characters, but the results speak for themselves, as one of film-making's most accomplished hyphenates delivers the franchises's second best big screen outing; ensuring more to follow.

Fans were left asking whether or not the worth had been wait it, as the four year gap between Abrams' Trek films doesn't translate into better developed characters or story and the deliberate attempt to hide the identity Benedict Cumberbatch's prevented the cast from selling the film's sizzle.

The 50th Anniversary of the Star Trek franchise saw Paramount Pictures pay tribute to Gene Roddenberry's creation with the $185 million action-oriented Star Trek Beyond. After several false starts, the production was developed into a feature film from a script written by Simon Pegg, the comedian-writer-actor-fanboy who had filled the shoes of Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott if the two previous films directed by J.J. Abrams. Pegg worked with TV writer Doug Jung, delivering a fast-paced story that tipped its hat to the franchise but didn't require an accompanying Star Trek Wiki reference guide to decode what was going on. Fast & Furious franchise Director Justin Lin was brought on board, replacing first-timer Roberto Orci, to help translate the story's ambition into a visual feast for movie-goers.